Fare-register



(No Model.)

H; R. GOPFEY.

FARE REGISTER.

No. 410.578. Patented SephlO, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY R. COFFEY, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

FARE-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,578, dated September 10, 1889.

Application filed October 16, 1888. Serial No. 288,168. (No model.)

such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a fare-register, and is designed as an improvement upon the devices shown and described in the Letters Patent granted to me June 12,1888, and numbered 38%,425.

The novelty will be fully understood from the accompanying drawing, when taken in connection with the specification and claim.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a face view of my improved fare-register with a part of the cover broken olf.

The case A is preferably circular in form and provided with a cover A. Inside of this case is a central fixed post D which is the arbor of a dished disk or wheel B, having an annular toothed rim provided with one hundred teeth equidistant from each other. The face of this rim is worked off in twenty divisions, (but ten being shown,) and each division is subdivided into five points, correspondin g to the number of teeth between the divisions. Consequently a movement of the disk equal to the space of one tooth on its periphery indicates one fare. In the dished or depressed portion of said disk B is a circular disk C, having a ratchet G beneath it, and on its face are figures from 1. to 10, indicating hundreds. The operating-lever H is provided with a spring-pawl H, which engages with the teeth of the disk 13, so that when said lever is depressed the wheel 13 will be moved about its axis the distance of one tooth, indicating one fare. The hooked springarml prevents any retrograde movement of the disk B. These devices, together with a segmental bell-actuating push-rod H are fully shown and described in my Letters Patent, numbered 384,250, of 1888, and are not herein claimed broadly.

This describes my general plan of indicating the condition of the register prior to my present improvement.

My first improvement, which is to lessen the liability of fraud on the part of the operator, consists in the addition of a toothed disk D, the inner end of the post D forming its arbor, the disks C and D both being attached at the ends of an arm E, secured at its elbow to the head of the post D by a setscrew. There are ten teeth upon the disk D, numbered from 1 to 10 and indicating the thensands. A spring-arm F is attached at its elbow to the elbow of the arm E in any desired manner, and strikes at one end upon the teeth of the ratchet G and at .the other end upon the teeth of the disk D.

If preferred, there may be used beneath the disk D a ratchet similar to the one beneath the disk C, in which case the spring F would strike upon its teeth, instead of as above shown.

A lug C on the face of the disk C strikes upon the teeth of the disk D, and upon the face of the flange B is a lug B, which strikes upon the teeth of the ratchet G.

Heretofore in my register, as previously patented, the fares may be run up from one to one thousand in seven minutes. By the device hereinbefore described it will require seventy minutes. For illustration: If the registerbe set at a certain number of fares say three hundred and 'sixtyand one hundred fares have been freshly taken and the operator desires to steal fifty, he must strike the lever II and ring or indicate nine thousand nine hundred and fifty fares, occupying seventy minutes, as the numbers of the disk D indicate ten thousand, those of the disk 0 one thousand, and those of the flange B one hundred, thereby consuming so much time as IOO thousand fares-that is to say, each time the lug B passes a tooth of the ratchet G it indicates one hundred fares, and each time the lug O on disk 0 passes a tooth of the disk D it indicates one thousand fares.

The spring-arm F holds the disks 0 and D in proper positions until the lugs B and O arrive at the above-described respective points of impingement, all being operated regularly by the suitable connecting mechanism of the lever H, which latter is utilized for the purpose of a collateral ticket-punching device, consisting of a punch L on the foot of the lever H, which is pivotally mounted within a housing I, which is attached to the rim of the case and has in its head a socket J for the reception of the punch L after it passes through the intermediate fare-registering card K.

In the drawing I have shown the foot of the lever H outside the case. If preferred, it may occupy a position within the case below the housing, which position I have indicated by dotted lines on the drawing.

The cap A may be hinged to the case A, or simply act as a detachable cover.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure, is-

A fare-register comprising the case A, the dished toothed wheel B, provided with a fixed arbor 1) and a pin B, an angular-shaped elbow-support E, rigidly fixed to the said arbor, the wheels 0 and D, provided with their ratchet-teeth, jou rnaled on studs fixed to elbow E, the angular spring F, fixed to said elbow, and the striking-pin O',adapted to engage the wheel 0 with the wheel D, all substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY R. COFFEY.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. WEBSTER, J AS. '1. SUMMERVILLE. 

